Learn Which Former Cast Member Turns Up Toward The End Of 24’s Eighth Season!!

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Former president Charles Logan, last seen being rushed to the hospital following his stabbing by former first lady Martha Logan, is coming back in “24’s” upcoming eighth season.
From Michael Ausiello’s Entertainment Weekly exclusive:

Logan will resurface towards the end of Day 8 when Cherry Jones’ President Taylor reluctantly enlists her disgraced predecessor to assist with an escalating diplomatic crisis.

Though Logan didn't appear last season, he was the cause of Soul-Patch Tony Almeida's season-seven rampage of vengeance.
We first met Logan at the end of season four, when he was a hand-wringing vice president seeking the counsel of former president David Palmer. Logan later helped engineer Palmer's assassination, as well as the murder of Almeida's wife, former CTU agent Michelle Dessler.
The first four hours of Jack Bauer's eighth day of real-time adventure air Jan. 17 and 18 on Fox.
Find all of Ausiello’s scoop here.

isn't he on his deathbed? what else can they do with this show? I liked how we had some Tony intensive episodes last season. It would have made a whole lot more sense to make this more of an ensemble cast years ago so it didn't seem so absurd for one man to fight every terrorist/conspiracy/bio-weapon threat. "He's the only man for the job." God help this country when Jack is gone.

After the hands-down-worst 6th season, my only hopes/expectations for S7 were "please don't suck and/or get the series cancelled." S7 was a decent somewhat redemption of S6, so I'm hoping S8 can restore 24 back to the glory days of Seasons 1, 2, 3, and 5.

Really looking forward to seeing this character return, it just goes to show that unless you see the person actually buried in 24, then they are not dead.
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This gives me hope for Nina Myers, and Chistopher Henderson, the latter could definetly still be alive, and please find a way, to bring Nina back!

wtf? They made a completely predictable mess of bringing Tony back from the dead, now you want them to do it with two people that Jack intentionally (and repeatedly) shot to kill, meaning the resulting excuses for resurrection would be 100 times shittier. Logan was never supposed to be dead, sure he went out with it as a possibility, but the producers have always been honest and said the door was left open.

Or at least nearly done writing the scripts for Season 8? The more episodes they film before January the better..........just in case there is another Hollywood strike and we have to go without 24 for another entire year........well......as long as they are GOOD scripts, lol.

I call bullshit on this. Charles Logan was a plot device in Season 4, and the integral part of Season 5. Bringing him back serves no purpose.<P>If the writers want to go down Nostalgia Lane:<P>1)Bring back Mandy.<P>Have her kill Jack in the final episode, albeit in a hard-fought battle. She's the only logical choice.<P>It both brings closure and stings like a bitch, as Jack cut her loose at the end of Season 4 via the Presidential Pardon.<P>"24" has intermittently dominated TV as one of the best dramatic series over the past decade. Send it out on a high note.

1 and 2 = 5 stars<p>
3 = 4.5 stars<p>
4 = 4 stars (I'm being lenient as the first 2 episodes of season 4 were my first exposure to 24)
5 = 4 stars<p>
6 = 2 stars (terrible season, first 4 episodes and a few at the back end were the only good eps. Easily forgettable season).
7 = 4 stars (maybe even 4.5, had the best villains of any season IMO, especially John Voight's scene chewing badguy and Tony Todd).<p>
Hope season 8 is awesome, bring on the Jack Bauer Power Hour for 2010!

on 24. I've watched it from the very beginning. I got through most of last season and still have the last 8 or so episodes on my DVR, but can't seem to bring myself to watch them. It just really seems that the same thing happens every episode. Jack yells, tortures someone, yells a little more at the President, who begrudgingly lets him do things his way (this time, and you'd better be right), Jack gets info, new cliffhanger. Again, been a fan since the beginning, and if this is the last season I'll watch just to complete the story, but without major changes (not the same thing happening in different locations), I don't know how much longer I can hang.

One week from the 'gamechanging' episode nrn spoke of; still think the Triple H of that show will be put over Matt, permanently. I think Grunberg's leaving; his normally active Twitter account has been flatline more than a Rush Limbaugh brain wave of late.

It's a shame the creators are content playing it safe season after season taking the same, tired soap opera approach. I'm not saying all soaps are bad. They have their place. But it's not like they've been doing a good job coming up with the weekly twists and it's sad to see a character with so much potential put into such a cheap, gimmick driven show. Sort of like putting Michael Jordan in his prime on a 2nd rate college basketball team... that's just not where you want to see such a big talent play out his career.<BR><BR>
It would've been nice if they had the balls to challenge themsleves and take Bauer in a completely new direction with a worthy, fitting story. Instead of futzing around plugging in poorly written characters from the past into the same old formula, there're so many better, respectable choices they could be making...

If i remember correctly, while we clearly see Jack shoot Nina, we only see him Shoot Henderson from a distance, at night on top of a submarine. So he could easily still be alive, Jack did promise to let him go.

I stopped watching a couple seasons back because it was just rehashing itself over and over, but im going to give this season a shot. I need to know what I missed that might be relevant to this upcoming season.

I've got to be honest I thought she was fucking awful. She looked like she was smiling in every scene, even ones where thousands of people had died.<br><br>
Hopefully Logan can find a way to cause total meltdown again.

Can't wait to see who he screws over this time!!! Seriously! I've been an avid 24 fan since Day 1! There are so many more great under developed characters they could revisit. Mandy! We need closure on her character and who she really is! Who the fuck was Nina working for back in Season 1?? What the fuck happened to Max and Trepkos from Season 2 and what was their goal?? ( Yeah I know Max was in the game, but he got crap treatment in that)Is Wayne Palmer dead or alive? He was only PRESIDENT and BROTHER to one of the greatest characters of all time. But, no!! The writers bring back Logan. Unbelievable.

This is true. I guess if they really wanted there's pretty much nobody they couldn't resurrect in the show. I just always respected the fact that, as extreme as 24 could go sometimes, they always kept dead people dead. It was like an unmarked line they wouldn't cross that kept it from becoming ridiculous in a non-awesome kind of way. If Nina or Henderson had simply escaped instead of dying, I'd have no problem with them being brought back, they were probably my favourite villains overall. But Jack killing them both were two very powerful "FUCK YES" moments in the show's history (especially Nina, since I think most of us probably weren't expecting Jack to finally just say fuck it and blow her away) and to have either of them return now would negate that.

I've been waiting for a resolution to that since 2003. Tie them into Logan, Mandy, and Alan Wilson. That shitty video game doesn't count. The beginning of Season 3 sucked because (while it was pretty good), I was convinced they were saving Max to come back later in the season and it never happened.

Season Six - All that's relevant is Jack was tortured in China then came back. Everything else is completely ignored.
Season Seven - Jack and Kim reunited; Kim has a baby named Teri. Jack has a new red-headed love interest/badass FBI Agent named Renee Walker. Tony is pissed over the government's role in killing Michelle and was willing to sacrifice innocent lives in order to find "the man behind Logan", a guy named Alan Wilson, who lead the entire Palmer assassination conspiracy. Tony was arrested before being able to kill Wilson. No evidence was on Wilson. Last we saw him, Renee began to illegally torture him.